Book Review: What’s in a Phrase? by Marilyn Chandler McEntyyre

What’s in a Phrase?: Pausing Where Scripture Gives You Pause by Marilyn Chandler McEntyre My rating: 4 of 5 stars I enjoy Marilyn Chandler McEntyre’s writing. I loved her http://ladydusk.blogspot.com/2011/09/book-review-caring-for-words-in-culture.html“>Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies many years ago and ordered this short volume on its heels. This book is easy to lose track…

Book Review: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque This is another where I can’t rate it. It was objectively well done. The writing style, the conveyance of what the author wanted to convey, the evocative nature of the writing – whether despair or sense of futility or angst – created that fog in…

Book Review (not really): Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott

Beauty in the Word by Stratford Caldecott I cannot give this book any stars. Not because I’m upset to have read it in any way. Not because I don’t think it’s a valuable read for one in my “profession.” But mostly because it was mostly beyond me. Oh, there were parts that I enthusiastically agreed…